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to facebook share to pinterest labels kingdom death lvl4s miniatures sunday december 18 2016 holidaze we are now 50 through our holiday travel schedule that s a big deal in years past we have made some poor planning choices and drove 1 000 to 1 200 miles in a 10 day period that gets old fast this year we were able to optimize the route and be there and back with 2 trips totaling about 400 miles likewise this fall and the holiday season or the holidaze as i call it has been much more sane i ve posted a lot about last fall s schedule we were home only a couple weekends between labor day and thanksgiving in 2015 we were on the road a ton i started the new job and the period from late august through january was just an eye burning blitz of highways and airports this year we strategically declined several invitations consolidated our vacation plans into a single trip and for the most part have been home with winter finally settling upon us i m relatively caught up on yard work at the 10 acres we ve burnt a lot of wood in the fireplace streamed some classic christmas movies on amazon prime and actually enjoyed our property i m far more relaxed and far less stressed than this time last year game news for the past couple weeks i ve been consumed by the spectacle of the kingdom death monster 1 5 kickstarter it grows a healthy bit each day and may go through 8m today with almost 3 weeks remaining it will probably flatline through the holidays but still has potential to knock off exploding kittens as the 1 ks board game before it wraps specific to the kickstarter there s a little mini community that s sprung up with heroes and villians trolls it s an interesting petri dish to watch develop for the most part it s a positive vibe there s a cadre of volunteers that answers questions in the comments as people pass through while the kd staff do what they can with almost 100k comments logged it s impossible for them to answer everything there are a handful of very well done fan pages see vibrant lantern and dobby s pledge helper and google doc pages that help explain exactly what s going on because the ks campaign is so vast that it s easy to get overwhelmed this next week promises to see a lot of activity the founder has promised to reveal all the remaining expansion content but then he s taking a break between christmas and new years and i don t blame him then after the holiday lull i expect the final week to be a bit nuts one of the more interesting evolutions is the group of guys trying to min max their pledges early in the kickstarter folks started generating lists of content to try to figure out the best pledge level they developed elaborate google doc spreadsheets to estimate each pledge level s value based on msrp and then cross referenced that against addons that offer gamer s content vs visual cosmetic only perks some of the higher pledges include mostly cosmetic perks so early on some of the groupthink peer pressure was that these pledges didn t add value for real gamers people started dropping these higher pledges as not worth it even though there was really no reason to finalize your pledge until the last day or three of the campaign but two things 1 not all of the content was revealed all of the min max nerding was premature 2 although the higher pledges were limited in availability the kd staff continued to open more spots so guys felt comfortable dropping out but the saturation point hit and the staff stopped adding more spots as more content became revealed and more hints about remaining content were dropped it became apparent that the initial analysis was way the fuck off and now guys that dropped want back in replacement pledge levels have been added at a significant increase so now the same pledge that they dropped costs more oops anyway i ll wrap this post here one of the things that s been on my mind is that kingdom death has a lot of parallels to eve i e the same reasons eve appeals to me are the same reasons kd does in a future post i may explore that idea bit more but for now i need more coffee posted by zoxe at december 18 2016 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday december 10 2016 monster this is a post about tabletop miniatures based board games it s perhaps the first of a few as my eve career continues to cartwheel in space like a dead frozen corpse my current eve career in stasis awaiting a resurrection and a splitting headache back in august we went to gencon in indianapolis for our 3rd year and i scooped up armfuls of new limited release brimstone goodness and still have a pile of it waiting to be assembled and played with sigh we had a great con played a lot of games and spent a lot of money talked to game designers of 2 of our favorite games and had dinner with old friends we toured the show floor repeatedly and there was one booth that stopped me in my tracks early on day 1 i don t say that figuratively i actually stopped in the aisle blocked traffic and gawked it was kingdom death monster hence the title of this post kd m box cover the models figures were fantastic the art cards books packaging was all so exceptionally well done i lurked during game demos and the gameplay seemed to hit a lot of the mechanics on my wish list it s a co op game so it s something that we can play on game night without someone having to lose i could hear my visa card buzzing in my wallet abavus didn t know what this was but he wanted it kd m core box weighs 17 lbs the flower knight alas they were sold out but i had been ensnared there s a parallel between kd m and ccp eve that only occurred to me this week what stopped me on the floor at gencon was how gorgeous the game was the figures cards board packaging all done in a style that eve players might find familiar ccp s branding has always been very intentional minimal clean and very very consistent even to the level of detail of how their offices are decorated kd m had a very similar feel artful but practical and done with an amount of talent and care not present in any other product on a very crowded gencon floor kd m is described as a labor of love by its creator and i believe that he s poured his soul into this and it shows secondly the content of kd m is visceral dark and gritty and intended for mature audiences just like eve this video shows some of the art these very figures were the ones i saw in the case at gencon the statue motif completely rocks it ok so why am i rambling on about this now that was august and it s now december here s why the second kickstarter for kd m is currently underway it s becoming a big deal as i type it s north of 7 3m pledged for a 4 person company that is self publishing a boutique game without any corporate overlords centralized distributors etc that s a big damn number it s the 8 kickstarter ever by size and 2 in the tabletop games category exploding kittens being 1 at 8 7m the stats of the campaign is impressive they blew past the first edition s kickstarter within a few hours of the start and had a first 48 hours that was simply nuts even if you re not a board gamer it ll maybe interesting to watch how the next 4 weeks unfolds and right now everyone is talking about what a huge success this is but nobody has really thought through what the longer term implications for the gaming market might be there are implications to assumptions regarding distribution channels expected art quality expected figure detail and certainly there are some old assumptions about mature content not selling well that this seems to be balking i don t think i m overhyping it by saying this the kind of thing that s going to send shockwaves through the industry ps i am of course pledged into the ks and will be adding kd m to our shelf posted by zoxe at december 10 2016 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels kingdom death miniatures saturday december 3 2016 humbug a christmas carol the george c scott version is currently streaming on amazon prime so the title is appropriate although i don t feel particularly crass or grumpty it s cold outside but i have a healthy glass of 2008 port from cass winery a screaming fire in the fireplace and a full belly life doesn t suck but this blog has been in desperate need of updating for a long time and for that i apologize reality is i ve not been playing eve much and by not much you should interpret that as i may very well have a pair of accounts with empty skill queues and i kind of don t care maybe the min max nerd in me should but that s the truth of the situation i ve been busy very busy i could type a lot about work being hectic or family being demanding or a half dozen other real life excuses and all would be true stories but those are cliched excuses for not writing and you deserve better but for the sake of completeness let s get the obvious out of the way work has been mega busy my boss the guy that sought out and hired me a little over a year ago transferred up and out of our area back in may and in his absence myself and 2 others have been backfilling him his replacement was only named in october and in the nigh 6month interim i was taking on tasks 2 pay grades above me great exposure great experience but no additional pay but it was a peek behind the iron curtain between executive and mortal and these are dividends i ll reap later count on it on the pc i ve been playing wow yes the evil warcraft the latest expansion legion struck a chord with me and for the most part it s been the best gaming experience since wrath launched i picked up my old main a warrior that i ran from 2005 through mid cataclysm and have him sitting on a pretty good set of gear and have been abusing the raidfinder and world quest system it s not eve level of complexity but it s accessible in the time that i have available each night i gave up overwatch it was fun but gave me headaches i m happier for dropping it i likewise don t play hearthstone any more i d like to revisit guild wars 2 but haven t made the attempt yet i bought the expansion but actually never played it and eve i followed the eve vegas updates and try to keep up on news to be honest i m disappointed that the drifter storyline hasn t advanced so much momentum was initiated with caroline s star and burners and the promise of advanced ai making its way to the average mission runner so much opportunity squandered i m not bitter but to be blunt i ve consumed the available content and need a refresh before i can think about venturing back nostalgia may drive me to fire up the golem and go bash some lvl4s but feelings of nostalgia are sated quickly i have little interest in alpha accounts revamped npe and such but that s where ccp is deciding they need to invest and that s fine the game needs customers to continue i m not challenging the decision but i am perhaps a casualty of their approach although technically i m still a paying customer so maybe the joke s on me i ll sign off with a happier note tabletop games and miniatures i meant to post a gencon update and never got around to it we attended for our 3rd year this past august and had a blast i spent a lot of money at the flying frog booth in spare moments i ve been painting shadows of brimstone miniatures and we ve been playing through the content as i ve had it painted up i still have a lot of painting to go i m a dude in his early 40s that enjoys table top games oh no i must be a nerd meanwhile flying frog did another kickstarter for their 3rd core set i went all in and spent more nerd money i have an absurd amount of miniatures and expansion packs inbound whenever the guys at ff can deliver and a few minutes ago i chose to support kingdom death s 1 5 kickstarter this was a game i fell in love with at this year s gencon the ks is currently at 6 6m and climbing a runaway success the miniatures are insane and the game looks challenging and fun back in august at gencon i kept steering mrs durden back to their booth even though the core game was sold out i just wanted to look at the miniatures and lurk while the demo games played it s got some adult themes i e boobies but the entire game is simply saturated with the same grittiness and darkness that draws me back to eve year after year thanks to the port wine i m drinking i also spent too much money on the ks than i should but i can always amend the pledge level once i sober up i m going to have to figure out a better storage display option for this stuff enjoy christmas enjoy the winter chills and the icicles and snowball fights and snow days fall and winter is the absolute best time of year enjoy it and in the immortal words of bill and ted be excellent to one another posted by zoxe at december 03 2016 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels random friday october 28 2016 enjoy vegas as i mentioned below i m not in las vegas this weekend and that pains me quite a bit sure we ll be on the road next weekend for our competing vacation option which i am excited about but this weekend i should be out west talking about nerd things so for everyone that s out there please enjoy the event hang out at holsteins as much as you can afford and come home safely after posted by zoxe at october 28 2016 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels eve vegas tuesday september 6 2016 housekeeping quick notes no particular order i m not currently active in eve i m still a paying customer but for all practical purposes i m on a hiatus i don t see that changing until cooler weather sets in and until then it is what it is i ve weathered worse storms and still came back i expect this will be no different i won t be at eve vegas this isn t related to 1 the decision was made when i was still very active we had such a great time last year that i d still love to attend even if not entirely active in the game but we had 3 potential vacations in the window of a 2 week period and opted to spend our vacation time and airfare budget on a different option in particular i owe a particular someone a large adult milkshake at holstein s cosmo and it pains me to not deliver work is ok but busy life is generally otherwise pretty okay as i ve mentioned before life for the past 12 18mo have been so weirdly stressful that i m trying to figure out what the new normal is i had to give up overwatch it was giving me headaches and i believe was affecting my sleep patterns i find that i haven t missed it i see pve in the current conversation i haven t delved into the details but i think in general any conversation about pve is a positive thing posted by zoxe at september 06 2016 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday july 31 2016 escape regular readers will know that the past year has been a rolling wave of busy for me new job tons of weekend commitments and 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